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by scott_s 6y ago
> But what is the cost of having them? The time and effort of the Wikipedia editors; the reputation of Wikipedia in general.
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by scott_s 6y ago
I see two problems. One, as the qualifications loosen, Wikipedia will tend to have not just more articles, but more lesser quality articles. At a certain point, Wikipedia would become mostly poor quality. Two, managing the articles has
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by scott_s 6y ago
Curiously, it doesn't adopt the now-standard approach for multithreaded support: per-thread memory pools, allowing one thread allocating and deallocating the same memory to avoid synchronization. This uses one lock guarding allocation,
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by scott_s 6y ago
I am unsure what the NYC capacity is right now, but I know in some parts of the city, patients literally died in hallways before even getting a proper room. I also personally know a nurse in a hospital in Westchester county (just north of t
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by scott_s 6y ago
They probably mean the Condor project which started in academia in the late '90s as a part of what was called grid computing: https://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor They also have an extensive list of publications over
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Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology(medium.com)
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by scott_s 6y ago
I am unaware of a "massive excess of capacity" in NY; quite the opposite. Where do you make that conclusion from? NY, to my knowledge, has been well over capacity and has had to take severe measures. Hospitals have had more patien
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by scott_s 6y ago
Because the content is just simple HTML, it's amenable to the reader view option available in most browsers.
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by scott_s 6y ago
Yes, this is what C++ concepts are supposed to solve: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constraints
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by scott_s 6y ago
Is Range a kind of interface? If yes, then wouldn't that be the appropriate return type? edit: Looking at other answers, I think Range is probably not an interface like they exist in Java, but rather a pattern of behavior per templates
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by scott_s 6y ago
We were on an exponential growth path before. Now we’re not. It’s impossible to prove that an intervention made things not happen, but this is the predicted outcome.
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by scott_s 6y ago
They’re not near being overwhelmed. That’s the point of we are currently living in success. But what we know from Italy and NYC is that the margin between situation-normal and patients-are-dying-in-hallways is less than a month.
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by scott_s 6y ago
I've seen you say similar things in a few other threads, and myself and others have said, every time: the risk to everyone is that the hospitals become overwhelmed. They are not right now because of stay-at-home orders. What you thin
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by scott_s 6y ago
Not optimize them away entirely, but eliminate the actual function call through inlining. User-code can implement their own new and delete. If those implementations are available during compilation, then they are candidates for inlining jus
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by scott_s 6y ago
Region-based allocation is similar to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based_memory_management
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by scott_s 6y ago
I didn't take that as an emotional appeal. If it was that, I would think they'd use a more charged expression ("die needlessly") instead of an industry euphemism ("depopulated").
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by scott_s 6y ago
Romer has called for as much as 30 million tests a day, which I think was based on some simplistic modeling. I think he was targeting everyone in the US being tested every two weeks. I think the two approaches are similar: let's test l
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by scott_s 6y ago
As I pointed out elsewhere, you're ignoring that Covid-19 is highly infectious, meaning that lots of people get it. Low fatality rates with wildly infectious diseases still mean lots of people dieing. Of course, as others point out, th
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by scott_s 6y ago
Correct, Covid-19 is not as bad as smallpox. But it's still bad. Focusing on fatality rates misses the infection rate . Two diseases with the same case fatality rate can kill widely different number of people if one is more infectious
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by scott_s 6y ago
Paul Romer, an economist at NYU, has been advocating for testing millions of people a day for a few weeks. He is co-author of a piece in The Atlantic, "Without More Tests, America Can’t Reopen", https://www.theatlantic.
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by scott_s 6y ago
I have heard Richard Garriott claim credit for coining "shard," and I'm very skeptical. The first database paper I could find that uses "shard" (as an acronym: System for Highly Available Replicated DAta) is from 19
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by scott_s 6y ago
C-style casts in C++ are a sledgehammer. You will get an object of the cast type afterwards, but it may not happen the way you thought it would. That's why it's better to use the C++ casting constructs. If you try, say, a static
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by scott_s 6y ago
For what I support and consume, it's actually less. Personally, I'm happy just using Patreon as a way to pay the creators and consume their content elsewhere. Some of the people I support make videos, and while they release them e
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by scott_s 6y ago
Then pay to support a creator on patreon and consume their content elsewhere. (I don’t think this is ideal, but your summation made it sound like a false dichotomy.)
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by scott_s 7y ago
I'm not sure if we can consider this independent support: both studies use the same antibody test. Any problems with the test itself (or our understanding of problems with the tests) will be present in both studies.
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by scott_s 7y ago
If school was back in session, that number would probably be much higher. Remember, these are the numbers with the most massive pause on our economy and society that we’ve seen in our lifetime. Young people are not immune.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Everyone is at risk from Covid-19. Younger people are at less risk, but they are still at risk, both from suffering a severe case, and from death.
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by scott_s 7y ago
Because Formula 1 - like most other sports - has such a dependence on an athlete's physical fitness to actually express the skill they have, I think it - and most other sports - is rather unlike chess.
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by scott_s 7y ago
I read Vox and listen to Ezra Klein's podcast as well as The Weeds. They have been covering Covid-19 since before it had that name. They are a part of my regular media diet, and I consumed their coverage before the US had its first cas
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by scott_s 7y ago
They were reporting what the CDC told them.

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